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A blood test for early detection of any cancer: What’s the ideal? Are we getting there?
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A blood test for early detection of any cancer: What’s the ideal? Are we getting there?

  • Rachel Brazil
  • 10 March 2023

Earlier cancer diagnosis could make a huge difference to cancer survival rates – only two in ten of those diagnosed after their cancer has metastasised survive, compared with nine in…

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Nanotechnology is steadily expanding its many roles in tackling cancer
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Nanotechnology is steadily expanding its many roles in tackling cancer

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 17 November 2022

A nanomedicine, as defined by the US National Institutes of Health, is a “highly specific medical intervention at the molecular scale for curing disease or repairing damaged tissues… ” For…

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Cancer and the immune system: turning insights into treatments
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Cancer and the immune system: turning insights into treatments

  • Anna Wagstaff
  • 7 October 2022

The vision of harnessing our immune systems to fight cancer has been tantalising scientists and doctors for more than a century. The idea had a strong scientific rationale: over millions…

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How organoids could help match treatments to tumours
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How organoids could help match treatments to tumours

  • Victoria Forster
  • 9 September 2022

When diagnosed with cancer, few things are more important than having confidence that the treatment you are prescribed is the best possible option for you. For many cancers, particularly the…

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What can we expect from mRNA cancer vaccines?
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What can we expect from mRNA cancer vaccines?

  • Sophie Fessl
  • 13 May 2022

Messenger RNA vaccines turned around Europe’s fight against the Covid pandemic. Less than a year after the first lockdowns were declared, mRNA vaccines got regulatory approval for emergency use, first…

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Tackling drug resistance: how our commensal bacteria can hinder or help
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Tackling drug resistance: how our commensal bacteria can hinder or help

  • Rachel Brazil
  • 7 January 2022

Response to therapeutics can differ widely from patient to patient, with some gaining highly significant survival benefits from a therapy that in others elicits no response at all. Patients who…

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The development of organoids for cancer research: an ode to the scientific method
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The development of organoids for cancer research: an ode to the scientific method

  • Hans Clever
  • 1 October 2021

Some twenty years ago, I sailed with my two little sons Sander (aged 7) and Max (aged 5) on the Ijsselmeer, formerly a large inner sea in the centre of…

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Natural killers: a new tactical unit joins the cancer immunotherapy brigade
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Natural killers: a new tactical unit joins the cancer immunotherapy brigade

  • Adriana Albini
  • 25 February 2021

There was a time when all that oncologists treating solid tumours needed to know about leukocytes was how to measure the damage that cytotoxic drugs inflicted on their patients’ white…

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Oncolytic viruses – a new wave of therapeutic possibilities
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Oncolytic viruses – a new wave of therapeutic possibilities

  • Rachel Brazil
  • 21 December 2020

Going back to the nineteenth century there were reports that infectious diseases seemed to provide brief periods of remission for cancer patients. One case from 1896 reported that the enlarged…

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Malignant: Insights into the process of metastasis and how we can stop it
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Malignant: Insights into the process of metastasis and how we can stop it

  • Adriana Albini
  • 10 July 2020

Why and how do cancer cells travel from their original site to seed new tumours elsewhere in the body, and what can be done to stop them? A series of…

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